20890919 Gasket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A genuine Volvo Penta application-specific flat gasket cut to the exact joint profile. Its sealing lands surround the relevant oil, coolant, fuel, air or exhaust passages while the fastener openings locate the gasket accurately between the mating components.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD560VE
• Volvo Penta TAD561VE
• Volvo Penta TAD765VE
• Volvo Penta TAD764VE
• Volvo Penta TAD763VE
• Volvo Penta TAD762VE
• Volvo Penta TAD761VE

• Engine Family: TAD

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta Gasket - part number 20890919
• Exact OEM joint outline and port apertures
• Specified compressed thickness for the assembled joint
• Material selected for the fluid, pressure and temperature at that location
• Prevents internal cross-leakage between adjacent passages
• Fastener pattern maintains correct orientation
• Single-use service component; renew whenever the joint is opened
• Engine type: Application-specific Volvo Penta engine sealing and fluid-control system

🔌 Function

When the mating components are tightened, the gasket conforms to small surface irregularities and creates a continuous barrier around the joint. Correct aperture alignment keeps each internal passage separated and unrestricted.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• External fluid or gas leakage
• Cross-contamination between oil and coolant or other passages
• Gasket extrudes or splits at a fastener
• Joint loosens after incorrect torque
• Repeat leak from warped, damaged or contaminated mating surfaces

🛠️ Service Notes

• Fit a new gasket every time the joint is disturbed — a gasket takes a permanent set once it has been torqued and will not seal reliably a second time
• Scrape both faces back to clean bare metal, keeping the blade at a shallow angle so it lifts the old material without gouging the surface, and use a plastic scraper on aluminium castings
• Check the faces for flatness, cracks and corrosion pitting, and make sure no old gasket, carbon or hardened sealant is left in the corners or around the bolt holes
• Fit the gasket dry unless the workshop manual for your engine calls for a sealant, and then only the type it specifies — surplus sealant squeezes out into oil, coolant and fuel passages
• Draw the fasteners down progressively in the sequence and to the torque given in the manual for your engine, and recheck after the first heat cycle where the manual asks for it

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• VOE20890919

📦 Condition

• Genuine Volvo Penta part
• Brand new
• Supplied in original or equivalent packaging